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In 2000, an indian tribe in the Catskills was going to build a casino. That casino would be directly competing with Mr. Trump’s casinos. So he pulled out all the stops.

Trump bought ads fighting the indian casino. His problem? He didn’t disclose it to the New York State Lobbying Commission.

Donald J. Trump and his associates have agreed to pay $250,000 in fines and to issue a public apology because they failed to disclose to the state lobbying commission that he had secretly financed newspaper advertisements opposing casino gambling in the Catskills.

The settlement is expected to be ratified at the Nov. 13 meeting of the New York Temporary State Commission on Lobbying, unless investigators unearth new information about Mr. Trump’s lobbying activities in New York. It would be the largest civil penalty ever imposed by the commission.

Although there would be no admission of wrongdoing on Mr. Trump’s part, he has agreed to spend $50,000 on advertising acknowledging that he had paid for seven ads that appeared last spring under the name of the Institute for Law and Society, an anti-gambling group in Rome, N.Y.

New York State. That’s the State where the Speaker of the House is currently in jail and the President of the State Senate and his son were arrested on charges of corruption. So, a $250,000 fine and an apology was the best the State could do against Donald Trump? Heh.

Now people are accusing Trump of “racism” because he ran the ads against an indian tribe.

Did he break election laws? Maybe, the commission never pressed charges and Mr. Trump – unlike House Speaker Sheldon Silver or Senate President Dean Skelos – was never arrested. He paid a fine to make the problem go away, attorney’s fees certainly would have been more than the fine.

Back to the Republican Establishment, they’re so desperate to stop Trump that they’re accusing him of “racism” for trying to protect his casino business in the region. And, they’re happy to say it’s just more proof he’s a “racist” because he wants to stop Muslim immigration and deport illegal aliens.

This is a shameful display of stupidity on the part of the Stupid Party and their minions. Shameful.

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Michael Becker is a long time activist and a businessman. He's been involved in the pro-life movement since 1976 and has been counseling addicts and ministering to prison inmates since 1980.
Becker is a Curmudgeon. He has decades of experience as an operations executive in turnaround situations and in mortgage banking. He blogs regularly at The Right Curmudgeon, The Minority Report, Wizbang, Unified Patriots and Joe for America. He lives in Phoenix and is almost always armed.

In 2008 my life changed when Barack Obama came into my front yard on a campaign stop. I asked him why he wanted to raise taxes, and he said that he wanted to “spread the wealth.” Since then, I have gained a national following as “Joe the Plumber” and now travel the country speaking and encouraging other everyday folks to get involved in the political process.